vicereine
Americannoun
noun
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the wife of a viceroy
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a female viceroy
Etymology
Origin of vicereine
1815–25; < French, equivalent to vice- vice- + reine queen < Latin rēgīna ( rēg-, stem of rēx king + -īna feminine noun suffix)
Example Sentences
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This time she is a publishing vicereine with a field of ex-husbands, a bewitching mother, a homosexual brother, a heterosexual near-blind brother, and an eleven-year-old daughter by magnificent, "fascinatingly brooding, darkly luminous" Renaissance Rocco.
From Time Magazine Archive
The converts received them with the utmost affection; their old friend the vicereine again occupied her former palace and welcomed Mrs. Judson with friendly familiarity, and new inquirers presented themselves at the zayat.
From Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons by Stuart, Arabella W.
But Gigi's stalwart Carolina Maddalena continued to rule as vicereine in the kitchen.
From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Harland, Henry
The lady heard that her sister, then vicereine of India, was about to have a child, and in February, 1897, a son was born to Lord Elgin.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
This was due to the Countess of Chinchon, vicereine of Peru.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
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